I.e. this year I didn't had to go in to work from saturday Dec 30th to monday Jan 8th (because if a holiday is on sunday, the next monday is automatically a day off)

That is 10 days of resting. Technically, you have to take an official vocation for the middle part. Well, you can *not* take it, but that just means loosing money – the office would be closed, you cannot go in either way.

Here, the x-mas is on Jan 7th. But the New Year is celebrated much bigger anyway – and that's when the presents are exchanged. Some more traditional people (maybe more in western ukraine and/or rural places) gift children presents on St. Nicholas that is Dec 19th, but that's not very spread in cities.

So most celebrations are Dec 31/Jan 1, then Jan 2 is usually a bank holiday too and so is Jan 7th, so in most places all of that time combined is made into a giant holiday/vacation.

It's so ridiculous sometimes to read tweets of US people I follow that try to be international and stuff and write "happy holidays" instead of "merry x-s" (aknowledging the diversity of celebrations), but then they write "welp, hope everyone had good holidays" on, like, Dec 26th.

Common, the holidays haven't even started at that point yet! Aknowledging diversity, my s.

CW because i don't want to rain on everyone's parade but about ~half of that harry potter chapter is human-written. they train markov chains on the text and then co-write using the markov chain to augment the human writers with the harry potter style and inject some curveballs into it

you can see how it works sorta on this page, which they link from their twitter:

I actually kinda hate managing a webcomic portal. The part of it, where I have to review the shitty comics, and approve them, since the bar in the rules is set low enough. The flow of bad ones is much bigger than the good ones. Welcome to the sewage duties.

But what really destroyed any motivation I had to handle the queue was the fucking political garbage that I outright deleted.